Risk Management
Farmers routinely handle high-dollar transactions — and the nature of the payments, often through unsecure methods, leaves them susceptible to foul play.
The report shares markets are at a crossroads—prices could move in either direction.
Periods of profitability and loss come in waves and Shay Foulk is sharing three key things to do in 2024 to make the best of it.
Researchers found a significant relationship between capital costs and farmer-held inventory.
With rapidly changing market conditions, Jerry Gulke says it pays to look at historical precedents.
Soybean demand makes the market more receptive to a postharvest rally if production trends lower into January. Corn exports are behind last year’s pace, and importers are turning to Brazil’s corn.
“It’s likely managing a slimmer margin in production agriculture will be closer to the 1980s than the 2010s.”
If Congress doesn’t pass stopgap funding, crop production and progress reports will probably stall. That won’t bode well for markets. “Usually it means that we’ve got some selling pressure ahead,” says one analyst.
As extreme weather events affect the profitability of agriculture, here are four areas to bring focus to the ripple effect.
“If I were picking both from a financial and an emotional perspective, the next place I could put a dollar, I still would favor farmland pretty highly,” Bruce Sherrick says.